Ordered Liberty: Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues

by James E. Fleming, Linda C. McClain, Linda McClain

Book Overview

Many have argued in recent years that the U.S. constitutional system exalts individual rights over responsibilities, virtues, and the common good. Answering the charges against liberal theories of rights, James Fleming and Linda McClain develop and defend a civic liberalism that takes responsibilities and virtues--as well as rights--seriously. They provide an account of ordered liberty that protects basic liberties stringently, but not absolutely,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674059107
• ISBN13: 9780674059108
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"